4: The Public Servants
Caring parents don't, according to the Analysis opinion poll, advise teenagers to try for jobs in the Civil Service - or local government - any more.
The policy of cutting public spending, cutting Civil Service numbers and cutting controls has also cut the power and prestige that went with being a public servant.
Do we live in a better-run country as a result? Has public spending really been cut?
Has the role of Government been reduced or is power being pulled back into Whitehall as friction and frustration build up between central and local government? Is privatising more than the sale of family silver?
In the last of four special programmes Mary Goldring looks at the change wrought by the Thatcher Effect upon the men who run the country. Producer DAVID MORTON